Knife amnesty is launched

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How ironic.

During the early years of WWII the Brits found they had so effectively disarmed themselves it required shiploads of US manufactured weapons followed by shiploads of US manufactured young men to bail them out.

The war is history, their finest hour is past.

They are quickly becoming a country even France can whip.

S-

I guess this will get me banned from THR for not being nice.
 
I think we ought to be thanking our English friends across the pond - they are displaying for all our fence-sitters and tunnel-visioned shooting sportsmen here in the US just how far that slippery slope descends when it gets momentum even amongst a theoretically like-minded populace.

-IglooDude, who has a PhD in spotting silver linings...
 
Meplat said:
Glass bottles!!! Want to see the people of Scotland rise up again? Outlaw those dangerous glass bottles containing that most delicate elixir - Scotch.
After all, when full, they can be used once as a club, and thereafter to inflict nasty gaping cuts. OUTLAW ALL GLASS BOTTLES SCOTLAND! YOUR LIVES AND SAFETY DEPEND ON IT!!!!!!!!
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They've already specified tempered glasses must be used in the pubs so you can't 'glass' anyone with it, and most sodas are sold in plastic bottles these days anyway.
 
Whisky comes in plastic bottles, wine in plastic lined boxes.
Next thing you know, they'll tell us we can't be trusted to vote!
I grew up hearing about the courage of my highland ancestors, where is that courage now?
 
I grew up hearing about the courage of my highland ancestors, where is that courage now?
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Mostly among those who emigrated to the US ;)

I read somewhere that England accomplished with the welfare state what they could not accomplish with the sword - namely, the taming of Gaidhealtachd

Mar sin leat :)
 
Americans appear to be under the impression that the highlands is all there is to Scotland. By far the greatest portion of the population live in the lowlands, in the central strip between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The Lowland Scot is a very different creature from his Highland cousin, whom he regards as little better than a painted savage.
 
Mk VII said:
Americans appear to be under the impression that the highlands is all there is to Scotland. By far the greatest portion of the population live in the lowlands, in the central strip between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The Lowland Scot is a very different creature from his Highland cousin, whom he regards as little better than a painted savage.
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I have no problems with paint! :evil:
 
From what I know, it's mainly due to the knife violence around here.

There isn't going to be a ban*, but they want kids who carry knives to hand them in, to try and reduce the number of stabbings. They had a replica/real gun amnesty not so long ago.

This doesn't mean it's a good idea, just that the intention is good. Just like the gun bans over here. Good intentions**, stupid and irrational actions.

*Yet.

** And we all know what that paves, don't we?
 
wingnutx said:
Knives will be forensically checked to see if they have been used in any crime but it is expected that the vast majority will just be destroyed.

Lord Advocate Colin Boyd will retain his right to prosecute if there is evidence a knife has been used in an offence.
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This is no "amnesty," it a well-disguised sting.
 
G36-UK said:
From what I know, it's mainly due to the knife violence around here.

There isn't going to be a ban*, but they want kids who carry knives to hand them in, to try and reduce the number of stabbings. They had a replica/real gun amnesty not so long ago.

This doesn't mean it's a good idea, just that the intention is good. Just like the gun bans over here. Good intentions**, stupid and irrational actions.

*Yet.

** And we all know what that paves, don't we?
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You, Cousin, are screwed, and tatooed, and headed for the dump heap, of history! It breaks my heart, but!
Things are done against you, because the doers of things are quite sure, that you will not rebel! They Dayam sure have y'all figured out, don't they, now?
Have you ever stood before a politician, and told him, "pass this freakin law, and, you will have to kill me, to enforce it"? I have, and I will, again, until the message registers!
Your freedom bears a price tag, my freedom has no price!
Just as soon as your government started this crap, y'all should have just started digging holes, and stashing well greased rifles.
Is there not one last voice in the whole U.K. who remembers how to say, "Hell no"?
You Brits have not met my expectations, the Australians and Canadians have not, either, can you tell me, WHY?
 
I hate my country

Selfdfenz said:
I guess this will get me banned from THR for not being nice.
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It's true though, at least the French army have a rifle which works
 
Have a cup of tea while you're being sodomized...

Pointy-stick Amnesty to be announced.
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Does that include sharpened pencils?:barf: I can see it now - school kids will only be allowed the little "shorty" golf pencils...

Seriously, "The Government" in the UK is getting to be pathalogically obsessed with stripping the sheeple of every possible implement usable for self-defense.

William Wallace is spinning in his grave!
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+1... Rolling in his own vomit is more like it...

I would LOOOOOOOOVE to see the descendants of William Wallace rise up as one and deal "The Crown" a bashed in, bloody mouth over this load of steer feces!

To try to take a Scotsman's sword is to try to take his manhood -"The Government" might as well bend him over and sodomize him in front of his family and friends...

Rise up and fight, Scottish bretheren!!:fire: MOLON LABE!!:fire:
 
Mk VII said:
They've already specified tempered glasses must be used in the pubs so you can't 'glass' anyone with it, and most sodas are sold in plastic bottles these days anyway.
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Sheeee***^!!!!

What WILL they think of next? Tempered glass? Wonder if that's where they got "club" soda from?

Laddies, methinks it's about time William Wallace's ghost awoke, came down once again from the highlands, and straightened some stuff out.
 
Mk VII said:
Americans appear to be under the impression that the highlands is all there is to Scotland. By far the greatest portion of the population live in the lowlands, in the central strip between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The Lowland Scot is a very different creature from his Highland cousin, whom he regards as little better than a painted savage.
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I have aspired my whole life to be regarded as little better than a painted savage.
 
O Flower of Scotland,
When will we see
Your like again,
That fought and died for,
Your wee bit Hill and Glen,
And stood against him,
Proud Edward's Army,
And sent him homeward,
Tae think again.
The Hills are bare now,
And Autumn leaves
lie thick and still,
O'er land that is lost now,
Which those so dearly held,
That stood against him,
Proud Edward's Army,
And sent him homeward,
Tae think again.

Those days are past now,
And in the past
they must remain,
But we can still rise now,
And be the nation again,
That stood against him,
Proud Edward's Army,
And sent him homeward,
Tae think again.

0 Flower of Scotland,
When will we see
your like again,
That fought and died for,
Your wee bit Hill and Glen,
And stood against him,
Proud Edward's Army,
And sent him homeward,
Tae think again.
 
An old gentleman in Athole, a friend of mine, Mr. Robertson of Auchleeks, carried this spirit so far, that disobeying all restrictions against carrying arms, he never laid them aside, and wore his dirk even when sitting in his dining room, until his death in his 87th year.
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--Major-General David Stewart of Garth

It is astonishing to think that less than 250 years ago there still existed in the Highlands of Scotland a considerable race of hillmen, whose language, customs, arts and even religion had altered little since before the Roman invasion of Britain...

...when they did venture from their mountain regions, they invariably carried arms, speaking little or no English, they were thought to be ignorant, savage and dangerous.
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--Michael Brander, The Scottish Highlanders and their Regiments (highlighting is mine).

In addition to the Government issue of musket, bayonet, broadsword, cartouche box and belts, they [the Highlanders] carried a tuagh or Lochaber axe, a dirk and a pair of 'dags' or steel pistols, and, in some cases, a targaid or shield. These, together with the original, utility, small leather sporran, were furnished privately. Proficiency in handling this formidable armament was proverbial.
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--Ibid (highlighting mine)

The southerner's suspicion of the Highlanders was displayed in the 'Disarming Acts' which followed the Rising, by which it became an offence for anyone to carry arms openly in the Highlands.
This must have proved particularly galling to the Highlander -- for he was accustomed to carrying arms always, and using them often.
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--Ibid

*sigh*

The more things change, the more they stay the same. This is just the latest Disarming Act in a long line of them.

LawDog
 
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